One last set of Mumbai photos today (with captions)

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The pool at my apartment building



Asok ("ashook&quot mopping the driveway to my building



The bottled water being trucked to my building to go up to the rooftop tank. Yes, there's a better way. It's just not here yet.



Rakesh, whose job it is to sweep the sidewalk



The old school



Apollo Mills, abandoned



I just liked that shot



The local gas station



My local dive bar. Look for me here if you're in Mumbai. It's on Delisle Road. Jamesons are 60 rupees. Kingfishers are 20. We may or may not remember how we left.



A public restroom in Mumbai. 75% of the city lives without indoor plumbing, so these are much more important here than in the US.



A gentrified mill re-development



A bodega.



A banyan tree



A sweets store



A homeless family being passed by some dude



The offering that family just threw on the railroad track



Spice-sellers grinding their spices



If you aren't appetized by this, you aren't human. Yum.



My friend Abdul (in white), his wife (in yellow), and some dude I've never met, discussing the day's news at their dry goods store. That scale you see is known in the neighborhood to be fair, so he charges a nominal price for other local merchants to use it. Like most of my other friends in this 'hood, he's a hajji (a Muslim who has completed his pilgrimage); he offers the fair scales because the Prophet's Law said fair merchants will be rewarded, and he wants to offer his neighbors that opportunity.



If you need Autocad designs in Mumbai, this is the place to go



New Mumbai. The high-rise.

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I love pictorials of other cultures. Thanks for sharing!